The King of Retail

Amazon, 2006, Digital

Product Description

Before realizing I could earn a substandard income as a writer, I ran a bike shop on Manhattan's Upper East Side. Ah, retail. If you've never had a job in retail you really are missing something. What you're missing is exhaustion, discontent, irritable bowel syndrome, bitterness, athletes' foot, free-floating rage, crotch rot, depression, chronic bedwetting, and a powerful urge to tear the eyelids off complete strangers. I was the King of Retail. And it was a good life. Well, it might have been...if not for the customers...and employees. "Heeeere, King."

Product Details

Title: The King of Retail
Sales Rank: 1047969 in Books
Author: Grant Jarrett
Publisher: Amazon, 2006-05-24, Digital

Customer Reviews

Hilarious, a bullseye.: You don't have to have experience in retail to appreciate the humor in this laugh-out-loud story of frustration, rage, sadness, and despair. If you've worked, gone to school, or lived, you'll understand the angst Jarrett suffered. But Jarrett somehow manages to find the humor in everything (see his story "You were right"). For the reviewer who had trouble with the… More reviews

In the Mood for Annoying OCD Drivel?: Does anyone really need to know all the tiny, uninteresting details of another person's life? Surprisingly, quite a few Amazon Short readers have decided that this is the oeuvre to desire. I bought (2) of Jarrett's 'Shorts' to gauge what it means to be popular on Amazon Shorts and can state that I've discovered more entertainment in discarded lists in the parking lot of my grocery… More reviews

Jarrett pushes my "laugh button!": After reading Gas and Snack, I had to give this short a try. The author, Grant Jarrett, really has a sense of humor. And it seems he can find it anywhere ... even in a hellish job situation.
My very first job fresh out of high school was behind the jewelry counter at a Robinson-Schwenn department store in Ohio. I didn't work there long… More reviews

Painfully Funny!: I was all set to be offended with Mr. Jarrett's four letter words needlessly used at whim, but he won me over with them because those four letter words helped him describes EXACTLY how one feels and more importantly how one THINKS if you [are or have] ever worked in RETAIL.
He writes with a telling sign of his former… More reviews

Hell made hilarious: Anyone who's had a job in retail or waited tables, anyone who's dealt with the public or simply experienced the existential panic that working at an unsatisfying job can ignite will relate to the tortured character in The King of Retail. This story, a mix of hilarity and despair, begins where the last morning dream ends and ends when the night's… More reviews